A Site for Photographers by Photographers

Internet Resources

part of photo.net.

Compilations

  • Bengt Hallinger keeps right up with everything photographic on the Internet

Photographers, Exhibitions

  • ZONEZERO has a thought-provoking selection of exhibits
  • Saelon Renkes has a great gift for nudes and hand-coloring.
  • If you browse Stacy Rosenstock's server, you should get some interesting ideas about photojournalism and also presenting photographs on the Web.
  • Check out my friend Rob's photo mosaics.

Magazines

(and other guides)
  • Digital Journalist, edited by White House photographer Dirck Halstead
  • Graphica Obscura, Paul Haeberli's eclectic mix of PhotoShop tricks and hardcore digital imaging applied to realizing aesthetic goals. Highly recommended.
  • PHOTO, the French magazine that can always be counted on for a half-naked babe on the cover and some interesting images inside. Some English translations.
  • Photo District News, the traditional journal of record for advertising photographers
  • PHOTO>Electronic Imaging, which is currently almost all hawking but I hope will develop into a good resource.
  • Janne Sinkkonen maintains an excellent guide to photo resources on the Internet, especially the Canon EOS mailing list archives.

Technical

Schools and Research Labs

Manufacturers

I hate to sound like the arrogant pigheaded prima donna that I am, but it looks to me like almost all of these folks are desperately in need of a copy of How to be a Web Whore Just Like Me.
  • Agfa, which has some good tech information on their films
  • Canon, yet another product brochure Web site that answers no interesting questions and teaches nothing. We waited 27 years for Fortune 500 companies to arrive on the Internet and now it turns out they have nothing to say.
  • Fuji, another good candidate for Worst of the Web. They keep redesigning it with new graphics. Each time, they forget one little thing: information. Kodak is kicking Fuji's sorry ass without even trying.
  • Kodak, which is slowly releasing all of their internal publications in HTML or plain text form. A nice effort with real information hampered by primitive Web publishing technology.
  • Leica, a site that makes the Canon one look really good.
  • Minolta USA
  • Nikon, which decided to play catch up to Canon by copying their "we've got the brochures and we'll ram them down your throat" style. No way of contacting them via email. No owner's manuals on-line. No search engine. No tutorials on using their products or photography in general. Nothing you couldn't get better and faster in their print materials.
  • Olympus
  • Pentax

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